recipes
Chocolate Almond Slice
Ingredients
- 125grams of butter
- 1 cup plain flour
- ½ cup almond meal
- 1/3 cup icing sugar
- ½ cup cocoa powder
- 1 egg yolk
filling:
- 4 egg yolks
- 2 tablespoons custard powder
- 3 tablespoons caster sugar
- 400ml pouring cream
- 250grams chopped dark cooking chocolate (choose a good one)
- 1 cup of milk
Directions
- Place the butter, flour, almond meal, icing sugar and cocoa in a food process and mix until fine breadcrumbs are formed.
- Add the egg yolk to the breadcrumbs and blend until well joined.
- Scrape mixture onto a lightly floured surface and knead gently until smooth. Shape into a flat disc, cover with gladwrap and refrigerate for ½ hour.
- Preheat oven to 200degreesC. Remove pastry from fridge and place on a floured surface and roll to a flat thick disk that will line the base of a 23cm pie dish. Trim the edges with a sharp knife, line with baking paper and fill with rice or beans and bake for 10 minutes in the preheated oven.
- remove the rice and bake for a further 5 minutes in a 160degree oven.
- To make the filling, combine, eggs, custard powder and sugar in a saucepan stirring constantly for a few minutes. Add the chocolate, cream and milk and cook over a low heat, stirring occasionally until chocolate has melted and is smooth. Remove from heat.
- Pour the custard mixture into the pie case and bake in an oven for 20 minutes or until custard is set. Remove and set aside to cool. When quite cool place in the fridge to chill.
- Serve on a serving plate with a jug of pouring cream.
NB: Raspberries can be an added accompaniement.
